Current mood: amused
Well we didn't get the chance to go ot Oxnard this weekend. By the time Friday night hit I was just to exhasted to pack and get ready for the trip. Mia has been teething and has been extreemly moody on and off, and Adrian was on less than 5 hours of sleep in the past two days... there was too many things stacked against us to make the trip and unfortunately we just couldn't make it.
So instead we rested and relaxed around the house. It was nice to have one weekend to ourselves where we didn't have to drive anywhere or run off to do errunds. Adrian and I spent some quality time together with Mia and we just hung out as a family. Something we had not been able to do in literally weeks! So when the time came when we got hungry we decided to go down the street to Red Robin for lunch.
We packed up Mia and drove there. It was another HOT day.. bleh... so we ran into the restuarant once we got there. They gave us a seat right away and gave Mia a highchair and crayons and a coloring menu to play with. So Mia sat next to Daddy and he showed her the crayons and how to use them. Soon she was scribbling like a big girl! Then Daddy gave her another color to use and thats when she refused to color anymore and just wanted to tear up the paper. We tried to appease her with some Cheerios which worked through most of the meal. Then out of no where the Manager came to our table and asked how things were going. We said good and he commented on how cute Mia was and then told her he would make her something special. Thats when he took a napkin off the table and made a rose out of it for her. She watched him intensely and really got into the whole thing. When he was done he handed it to her and Mia of course didn't take it from him, she is classic for not taking things from strangers... I guess thats good right? so he laid it on the table and left. As he walked away she picked it up and played with it. She loved that little napkin rose and wouldn't put it down for anything. She even ate Cheerios with one hand so she didn't have to put it down. Then, like all things, she started putting it in her mouth and thats when we had to take it away from her. She protested a bit but the Cheerios calmed her back down. We had a nice meal together as a family, I had the Jerk Chicken Buger which was good but sent me to the bathroom half way home (I have an extreeeeemly senstive stomach, especially after my gall bladder surgery), Adrian got a Ceaser salad and soup and Mia got ... ya you guessed it.. Cheerios! After hanging out a bit we went home.
I fed Mia some dinner and I put on some Yo Gabba Gabba for her. Oh before I get into that, I noticed she started doing this funny thing recently.. yesterday to be exact. There is one espisode ("Together") which she watches ALL the time. There is a segment where the cartoon comes on with "Super Martian Robot Girl". She loves when they show that. In this episode some people are trying to play music in the jungle and out of no where a Cobra Man comes out and dances and scares them away. Hes weird looking but not really scary. In the end they find out hes harmless and they all get along with each other. Well anyways, yesterday I noticed that right before the Cobra Man walks out Mia lets out a high pitch scream! Its like a fake scared scream. I think she is copying the characters on TV because they scream when they see him. I showed her the episode again later in the day and sure enough right before the Cobra Man comes out she lets out a high pitch scream. So this morning I wanted to show Adrian and I put on that scene again and sure enough she screamed again, we got a huge laugh out of it. So we put it on again just before her bedtime so we could capture it on video and.. yep she did it again. She just screams alittle bit and just for that specific scene, not before and not after. Its really funny. I guess she is begining to remember episodes and scenes and is trying to mimick the characters on TV. Too Cute!!!
Well thats about it, I am off to go to bed early, I am soooooo tired. I just had to share those little stories.
Mia screaming at Cobra Man
